Easy Rider

[novella]

What's the consensus on Easy Rider, the Peter Fonda/Dennis Hopper road trip movie?

I've always had strong opinions about this movie, but the funny thing is they keep changing. Has anyone given it a fresh viewing?

 

[Ou Be Low hoo]

'Easy Rider' is a great movie...my favourite parts all involve Jack-Jack Nicholson, especially when they all get stoned on the mountain...good times.

 

[warm_enema]

yeah, i watched it a month or so ago.

 

[novella]

Well, I'll tell ya, I used to think Fonda was so pretentious in it, that the movie's feel was so pretentious (Captain America, right?), and if Dennis Hopper wasn't unequivocally stoned for the entire thing, it wouldn't be half the fun.

Favorite line, Hopper in the bordello: "Chicks."

Of course, Nicholson is at his best. After that and 5 Easy Pieces it was all tripe.

But recently I started to view Rider as satire, which it definitely wasn't intended as, IMO, and I got a much bigger kick. The stereotypes are stellar.

 

[bobbyburns]

I haven't seen easy rider, but I guess I'm going to have to if it's jack's best performance. right now my opinion is that his best film was chinatown.

 

[Ou Be Low hoo]

I haven't seen easy rider, but I guess I'm going to have to if it's jack's best performance. right now my opinion is that his best film was chinatown.

I don't know if it's Jack's best performance, but it was his first...

He is excellent in it though - so natural, yo.

I think his best performance is in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'....

 

[bobbyburns]

they're both awesome. the only reason I chose chinatown over it is because it's a roman polanski film.

 

[Ou Be Low hoo]

the only reason I chose chinatown over it is because it's a roman polanski film.

And you like him because of he likes to have sex with minors?!?!?!?!

 

[bobbyburns]

it wasn't like she was eight years old.

 

[warm_enema]

there is a scene in, Knife in the Water (i forgot the original title and am too lazy to look it up), that is poetic, it is in my top movie moments.

 

[bobbyburns]

I very much love that film.

 

[Sun-SSS]

Someone will object to my contributing to a thread already old, but I don't care, Novella.

I recently saw Jack Nicholson in an ancient black and white movie on community TV, about vampires or something. He was about twenty. I kept thinking I know that face -- who is that guy? Then it dawned on me. Good looking, he was, as a young man. These days I find him too busy being Jack Nicholson to be a very good actor.

Line I liked best from Easy Rider:
Hopper (to some walk-on, walk-off character): "Where do you come from, man?"
Character: "Hard to say."
Hopper (irritated): "How can it be hard to say where you come from?"
Character: "Ahhh …it has a very long name."